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?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEUntil you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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