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| Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind. A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks. An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye! Ancestral voices prophesying war! Beloved from pole to pole. Friendship is a sheltering tree. General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves. If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself. My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties. No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. No one does anything from a single motive. Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole. Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions-the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling. The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations. The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are - 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul. What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul. |
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