Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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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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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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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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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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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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