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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEGuilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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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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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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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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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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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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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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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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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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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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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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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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