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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEYou see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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A 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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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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