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But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.

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The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark.

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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

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Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.

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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.

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Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

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Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.

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Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.

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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

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In Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavement fang'd with murderous stones, And rags and hags, and hideous wenches, I counted two-and-seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks! Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The River Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth whash the river Rhine.

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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

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Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.

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And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

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I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to be of any service, must be self-evolved in the first instance. I am something of the Quaker's mind in this, and am inclined to wait for the spirit.

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Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out.

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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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The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.

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Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

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