In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPersecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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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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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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