Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEBe not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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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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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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