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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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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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Appear Arteries Circulate Democracy Externally Healthful Lifeblood never Support System Vein
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Beat Hope Ingenioyus Inspire Most Physician
Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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Beast Either First Immortal Soul True Wisedt
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Great Intolerance Mind Seen Shown Support Tolerance
Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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After Day Idl Motion Nebat Ocean Painted Stuck Upon
The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Author Creator Excellence Excess Fault Generally
Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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Acem Body Depth Gaenor Mind Ocean Own Party Profession Religion Substance Work
Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Blest Hour Luxury
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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Allegory Contagious Country Enthusiasm Myth Noting People Person
In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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Cease Deepest Give God Much Need never Night Singing Sorrow Thankful Trouble
My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Eye Make Picture Shut Stop
Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Defense Experience First Inform Mind Recrimable Weak
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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Antipathy Constitute Love Oppose Passion Sort Sympathy
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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Begin Better Christianity Church Love Procced Sect Truth
We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Enough Feel Lucky Miseries Thousand
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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Dews Drop Gentile Gloomy Grow Heart Proud Remorse Repentance
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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Family Father Heavenly Light Love Mother Same Softer
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Deficient Humor Mind Organize Sense Throughout
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Call Common Degree Sense Uncommon Wisdom World
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Begin End Family Fear Politics Unusually
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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Beautiful Discover Exceed Good Great Habit Meed Poetry Reward Surround Wish
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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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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Accurately Beautiful Copy Faithfully Image Nature Observe Represent Themselves Word
Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Always Mark Silence Wisdom
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
The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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Armament First Food Furnish Learn Look Man Play Science Shelter Thing Tool Weapon
It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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Above Affectionate Birth Gentle Heigh Imesaurebale

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