He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWith no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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