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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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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Also Beast Consciousness Difference Kind Possession Same Soul
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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Above Affectionate Birth Gentle Heigh Imesaurebale
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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Appetite Healthful Nourishment Ourselves Recur Return Same Supply
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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Direct Gratified Institution Land Multitude Spoil Tyranny
Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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Attainable Deep Feeling Man Revelation Species Think Truth
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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Acting Constitute Genuis Lawless Must Orinibnation Power Under
Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Blest Hour Luxury
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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Characteristics Formula Law Prohibitive Prudence Rule Stine Table
Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Defense Experience First Inform Mind Recrimable Weak
Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Ignorance Ignorant Presume Understanding Until Understand Yourself
The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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Armament First Food Furnish Learn Look Man Play Science Shelter Thing Tool Weapon
He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Best Loveth Playeth
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Acknowledge Consistent Disguise Selfishness Sympathy
How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Atheist Denies God Idea
No man does anything from a single motive.
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Anything Man Motive No Single
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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Affectionate Converge Experience Literal Literature Pursue Short Tarde Youthful

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