A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThere is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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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 faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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