The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGETo sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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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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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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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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A great mind must be androgynous.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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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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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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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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