Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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