Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPoetry: the best words in the best order.
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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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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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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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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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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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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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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