Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGETo believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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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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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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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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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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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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