As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWith 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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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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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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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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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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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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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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