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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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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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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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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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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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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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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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