I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEDeep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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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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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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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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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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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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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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