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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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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The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.
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There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.
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Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance.
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Thou rising Sun! thou blue rejoicing Sky! Yea! every thing that is and will be free! Bear witness for me, whereso'er ye be, With what deep worship I have still adored The spirit of divinest Liberty.
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Method means primarily a way or path of transit. From this we are to understand that the first idea of method is a progressive transition from one step to another in any course. If in the right course, it will be the true method if in the wrong, we cannot hope to progress.
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He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
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Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed therefore they turn critic.
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Remorse weeps tears of blood.
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And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.
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On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.
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Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.
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Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me.
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How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!
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The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion.
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