To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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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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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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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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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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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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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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