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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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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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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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Also Beast Consciousness Difference Kind Possession Same Soul
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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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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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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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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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.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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