That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThere are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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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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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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