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!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPoetry: the best words in the best order.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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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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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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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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 wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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