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

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Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)

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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

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On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.

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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

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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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To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

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O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.

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Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny, and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.

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That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.

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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 his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

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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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If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

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Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.

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A stately pleasure-dome decree.

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[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken place in a moment, by the explosion of a mass of matter in the womb, or centre of space. In one and the same instant of time, suns and planets shot into systems in every direction, and filled and spangled the illimitable void! He asserted this to be an intolerable degradation -referring, as it were, all the beauty and harmony of nature to something like the bursting of a barrel of gunpowder! that spit its combustible materials into a pock-freckled creation!

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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.

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I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.

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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

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You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

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