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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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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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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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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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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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