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• The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

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• The man’s desire is for the woman; but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

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• What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

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• The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

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• Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

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• That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

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• Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

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• Swans sing before they die – ’twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

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• Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

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  Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.

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• Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody’s reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.

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• There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to.

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• A man’s desire is for the woman, but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

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• In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration

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• Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault.

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• Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

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• Friendship is a sheltering tree.

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• A poet ought not to pick nature’s pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

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• What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.

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• Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (128)

Birth:	21st October, 1772
Death:	25th July, 1834
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Critic, Philosopher, Poet

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