No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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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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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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