Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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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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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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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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