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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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Blossom Emotion Fragrance Human Knowledge Language Passion Poetry Thought
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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Animal Brute Disgust Healthy Man Mind Over Prevails Processes Proportion Sense
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Body Dewarfish Epigram Soul Whole Wit
Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Anime Better Fame Family Tranquility
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
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Acknowledge Consistent Disguise Selfishness Sympathy
Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Clergy Fraud God Hurch Interest Liar Orthodox Publish
$Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote - The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.$

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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Amde Fraction Happiness Life Minute
We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Enough Feel Lucky Miseries Thousand
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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Argumentation Arm Constitute Escutcheon Honorable Letter Literature Man Merely
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Alone Day Ill Imaginary Pearl
Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Blest Hour Luxury
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
A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Bitter Man Necessity Perplex Shall Whose
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

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