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O Lady! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live:
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my gentle-hearted Charles, to whom No sound is dissonant which tells of Life.
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Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain,
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Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.
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Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.
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Five miles meandering with mazy motion, Through dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank the tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!
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Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
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Swans sing before they die -- t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.
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Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.
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Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action -- that the end will sanction any means.
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A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; -- nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.
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An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.
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My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.
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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.
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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; --poetry = the best words in the best order.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it -- low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion -- and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. 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 do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language -- religion -- government -- blood -- identity in these makes men of one country.
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The most happy marriage I can imagine to myselfwould be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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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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All thoughts, all passions, all delightsWhatever stirs this mortal frameAll are but ministers of LoveAnd feed His sacred flame.
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