What comes from the heart goes to the heart
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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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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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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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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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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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 faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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