To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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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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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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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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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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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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A great mind must be androgynous.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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