Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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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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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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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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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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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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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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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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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 wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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