With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA great mind must be androgynous.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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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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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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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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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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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