Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAn undevout poet is an impossibility.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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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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