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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Generally Give Mist Perfect Poetry Understood
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Acknowledge Consistent Disguise Selfishness Sympathy
When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Bard Commandment Eight Made
Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Easy Persecution Very Virtue
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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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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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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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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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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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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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Enough Feel Lucky Miseries Thousand

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