We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEReal pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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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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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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