Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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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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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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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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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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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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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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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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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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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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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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