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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Dearer Enthusiasm Great Nothing Self Swallowing
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Alone Day Ill Imaginary Pearl
Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Defense Experience First Inform Mind Recrimable Weak
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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Begin Better Christianity Church Love Procced Sect Truth
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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Border Closely Friendship Love Men More Women
I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Form Foundation Home Outward Passion Win
Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Contain Nothing Otherwise Permanently Reason
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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Allegory Contagious Country Enthusiasm Myth Noting People Person
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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Affectionate Converge Experience Literal Literature Pursue Short Tarde Youthful
The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Absolute First Great Requisite Sincerity
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
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
We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Appetite Healthful Nourishment Ourselves Recur Return Same Supply
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Imagination Imaginative Language More Necessary Plain Pure Work
With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Good Other Prilivege Sincere Sympathy Wishes
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Beat Hope Ingenioyus Inspire Most Physician

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