What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENo man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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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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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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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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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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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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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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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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