Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEGenius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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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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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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