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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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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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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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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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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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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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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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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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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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.
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