age.
--CHATFIELD.

He who finds elevated and lofty pleasures in the feeling of poetry is
a true poet, though he has never composed a line of verse in his
entire lifetime.--MADAME DUDEVANT.

Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high
thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.--MAZZINI.

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest
and best minds.--SHELLEY.

Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would
suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.
--ABRAHAM COLES.

Poesy is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one
language into another it will evaporate.--DENHAM.

Poetry is the child of enthusiasm.--SIGMA.

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them
on the side of virtue.--COWPER.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me
the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that
meets and surrounds me.--S.T. COLERIDGE.

When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in
a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from
the rose-tree the rose.--JAMES A. GARFIELD.

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great
poet, must first become a little child.--MACAULAY.

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling
souls.--VOLTAIRE.

There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as
between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.--HARE.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and
the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its
brightness.--PERCIVAL.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you.--JOUBERT.

Poetry is the robe, the royal apparel, in which truth asserts its
divine origin.--BEECHER.

The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to
have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have
been, but as they really were.--CERVANTES.

POLITENESS.--True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply
consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.
--CHESTERFIELD.

Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may
affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural
politeness.--STANISLAUS.

Christianity is designed to refine and to soften; to take away the
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