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A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree.
A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.
I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered.
History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.
When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.
Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain.
We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.
Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.
That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.
The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.
There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.
The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.
Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.
Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
For mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.
The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
'Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way.
To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.
It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.
Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.
A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.
Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.
That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.