As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented...

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented...

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, / Who thicks man's blood with cold.

The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, / Who thicks man's blood with cold.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion....

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion....

The religion of the Jews is, indeed, a light; but it is as the light...

The religion of the Jews is, indeed, a light; but it is as the light...

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and...

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and...

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before...

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before...

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They...

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They...

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

No one does anything from a single motive.

No one does anything from a single motive.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they...

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they...

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.