The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENo man does anything from a single motive.
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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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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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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.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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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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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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