Friendship is a sheltering tree.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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