Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEOf no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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 may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Milton 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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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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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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