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!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGECommon sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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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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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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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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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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You 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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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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