The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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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.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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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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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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