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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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Appear Arteries Circulate Democracy Externally Healthful Lifeblood never Support System Vein
We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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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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Dews Drop Gentile Gloomy Grow Heart Proud Remorse Repentance
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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Already Author Biographer Country Man People Person Runed
If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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Come Feeling Goes Heart
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Alone Day Ill Imaginary Pearl
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Agent Al Human Imagination Live Perception Power Prime
An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Imoosisbly Poet Undevout
Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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Acknowledge Best Hard Hearted Human Know Man Nature Nonsense Strength Wok
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Great Man Philosopher Poet Profound Same Time
Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Defense Experience First Inform Mind Recrimable Weak

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