The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIf a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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