Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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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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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!
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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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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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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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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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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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