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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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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Head Heart Knew never Philantrophy Somewhere Trader Wrong
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Committed Heritage Like Morning Onion Vice
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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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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Affectionate Converge Experience Literal Literature Pursue Short Tarde Youthful
Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Bad Each Good Less Men Seem
Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Better Equal Love Myself Superior
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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Aged Children Inhuman Often Through World
Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Form Heart Honor Men Opinion Own True
To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Beloved Indeed Need
Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Blest Hour Luxury

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