Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPeople of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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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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No man does anything from a single motive.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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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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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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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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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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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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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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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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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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