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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENo man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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