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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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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 first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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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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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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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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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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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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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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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