The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe 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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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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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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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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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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