Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENo man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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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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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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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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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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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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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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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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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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