What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPoetry: the best words in the best order.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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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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A great mind must be androgynous.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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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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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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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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