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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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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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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Be 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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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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