I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEBe 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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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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