Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Of 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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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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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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