Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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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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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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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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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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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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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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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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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