The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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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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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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