The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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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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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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