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 COLERIDGEIt has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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