We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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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A great mind must be androgynous.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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