He holds him with his glittering eye.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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He holds him with his glittering eye--
. . . .
And listens like a three years' child.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
The four principal oral instructors to whom I feel my mind indebted for improvement were Joseph Fawc...
WILLIAM GODWIN Samuel has shown his class at this event. Every time we play with him, we know he is going to make s...
RIGOBERT SONG
He [Coleridge] talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.
WILLIAM HAZLITT He kept him as the apple of his eye.
BIBLE Thus Milton refines the question down to a matter of faith," said Coleridge, bringing the lecture to...
TIM POWERS Samuel is a human being and he felt bad on the field. I was pleased with the reaction of his teammat...
FRANK RIJKAARD But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him
BIBLE He is very physical, holds the ball up well. He can trouble teams with his heading, especially on th...
MARCEL DESAILLY He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling
wilderness; he led him about, he instructed...
BIBLE His brother Brandon told him to stop playing with the gun; that's when the gun went off, ... He said...
JAMES KENNEDY
King Stephen was a worthy peere,
His breeches cost him but a crowne;
He held them sixpence all...
THOMAS PERCY Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 Kn...
JAMES I. PACKER Samuel said he didn't want to continue but we wanted to convince him that he should not let them (th...
CARLES PUYOL
But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a...
WILLIAM BLAKE And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the LORD: let him do wh...
BIBLE It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority whic...
JAMES SMITHSON And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.
BIBLE It was a shame. Samuel is a human being and he felt bad on the field but I was pleased with the atti...
FRANK RIJKAARD Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws t...
BILL KLEM
The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their f...
ARTHUR SMITH
Let simple Wordsworth chime his childish verse, / And brother Coleridge lull the babe at nurse.
LORD BYRON
He that speakes sowes, and he that holds his peace, gathers.
GEORGE HERBERT Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither
desire thou his dainty meats:
For as...
BIBLE Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: / For as ...
BIBLE
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it
through an intermediate state of obscuri...
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Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare,
And shot my being through earth, sea, and air,
...
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Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
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Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor a...
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With Nature, Hope, and Poesy;
When I was young!
When I was young?--Ah...
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And hope without an object cannot live.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weap...
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed?
And what if, in your dream, you went...
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love the...
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To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro...
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To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has pa...
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.
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The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, ar...
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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.
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My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intel...
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Water, water, everywhere,
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Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.
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What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.
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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
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Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.
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What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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And a good south wind sprung up behind,
The Albatross did follow,
And every day, for food or p...
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O, it is pleasant, with a heart at ease,
Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies,
To make the...
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O, it is pleasant, with a heart at ease,
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That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates
With fast thick warble h...
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Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time,
place, and company.
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But whispering tongues can poison truth,
And constancy ...
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So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
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Dew-drops are the gems of morning,
But the tears of mournful eve!
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Whether the summer clothe the general earth
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A mother is a mother still,
The holiest thing alive.
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My eyes make pictures, when they are shut.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!
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Her gentle limbs did she undress,
And lay down in her loveliness.
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Silence is a friend who will never betray.
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Talk of the devil, and his horns appear
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The moving moon went up to the sky,
And nowhere did abide;
Softly she was going up,
And ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
"Most musical, most melancholy" bird!
A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought!
In nature there i...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Prose--words in their best order;--poetry--the best words in
their best order.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess which will itself need ...
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Silent icicles,
Quietly shining to the quiet moon.
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For why drives on that ship so fast,
Without or wave or wind?
The air is cut away before,
...
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Five miles meandering with mazy motion, Through dale the sacred
river ran, Then reached the caverns...
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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree;
Where Alph, the sacred river ran,
...
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O sleep! it is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole!
To Mary Queen the praise be given!
...
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Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wep...
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Like one, that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round, w...
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A sadder and a wiser man,
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are ...
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Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade,
Death came with friendly care;
The opening bud to Heaven ...
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Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole.
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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act ...
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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very ...
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They...
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Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into t...
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Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on <...
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Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool,
But you yourself may serve to...
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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of...
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That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by
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Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.
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O! lady, we receive but what we give,
And in our life alone doth nature live;
Ours is her wed...
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Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks o...
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Never, believe me,
Appear the Immortals,
Never alone.
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While many a glowworm in the shade
Lights up her love torch.
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Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each...
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Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
No...
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro...
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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He went like one that hath been stunn'd,
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man,
...
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It sounds like stories from the land of spirits,
If any man obtain that which he merits,
Or an...
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A man of maxims only, is like a cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.
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No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.
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The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into ...
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Treading beneath their feet all visible things,
As steps that upwards to their Father's throne
...
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Those holies of themselves a shape
As of an arbor took.
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Ah! replied my gentle fair,
Beloved, what are names but air?
Choose thou, whatever suits the ...
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Iago's soliloquy--the motive-hunting of a motiveless
malignity--how awful it is!
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The mother says to her daughter: Daughter bid thy daughter, to
her daughter, that her daughter's d...
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Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe
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Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.
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Ancestral voices prophesying war.
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Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book t...
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Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if wit...
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I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Experience informs us that the first defense of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, t...
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Five miles meandering with mazy motion,
Through dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the ca...
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Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.
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All thoughts, all passions, all delightsWhatever stirs this mortal frameAll are but ministers of Lov...
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Our myriad-minded Shakespeare.
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So lonely 'twas that God himself
Scarce seemed there to be.
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Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide, wide sea.
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Or soar aloft to be the spangled skies
And gaze upon her with a thousand eyes.
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Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star
In his steep course?
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And the spring comes slowly up this way.
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The frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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All thoughts, all passions, all delights, whatever stirs this mortal frame, all are but ministers of...
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is s...
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards
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The bride hath paced into the hall, / Red as a rose is she.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro...
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If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that...
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I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book
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The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: / At one stride comes the dark.
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Life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the br...
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He saw a cottage with a double coach house, A cottage of gentility; And the Devil did grin, for his ...
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Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with mus...
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Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph
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As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale -- my dreams become the substances of my life.
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It was a miracle of rare device, a sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough ...
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Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
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A savage place! as holy and enchanted / As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted / By woman wailing...
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman wor...
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The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, / Who thicks man's blood with cold.
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The Knight's bones are dust, / And his good sword rust; - / His soul is with the saints, I trust.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weap...
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A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the m...
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The one red leaf, the last of its clan, / That dances as often as dance it can, / Hanging so light, ...
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
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In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the fi...
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No man does anything from a single motive
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree
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When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, / And the owlet whoops to the wolf below.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discov...
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a ...
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We were a ghastly crew.
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Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
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Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
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Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth
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It is an ancient mariner, / And he stoppeth one of three.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly
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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of...
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discov...
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