Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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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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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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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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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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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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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