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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?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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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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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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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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