The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEBlest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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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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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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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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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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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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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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