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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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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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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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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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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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