If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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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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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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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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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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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.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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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.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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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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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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