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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEUntil you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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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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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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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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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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