Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAs 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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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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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.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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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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A great mind must be androgynous.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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