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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Age: 61 †
Born: 1772
Born: October 21
Died: 1834
Died: July 25
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.
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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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O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.
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Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.
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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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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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