No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAll sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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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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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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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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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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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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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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