Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENo man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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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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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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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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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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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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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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