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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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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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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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