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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.
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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Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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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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For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.
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The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.
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