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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Age: 61 †
Born: 1772
Born: October 21
Died: 1834
Died: July 25
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A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.
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The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.
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Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.
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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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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.
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Ancestral voices prophesying war.
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Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.
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To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.
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If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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