The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEReal pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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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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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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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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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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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 Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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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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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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