Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThis world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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