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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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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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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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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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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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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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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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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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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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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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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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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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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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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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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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