Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEMilton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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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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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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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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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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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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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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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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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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