To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIt 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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A great mind must be androgynous.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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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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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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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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