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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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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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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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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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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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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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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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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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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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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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