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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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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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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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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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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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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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 true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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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 doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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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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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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