That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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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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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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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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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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