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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENo mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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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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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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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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