In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIt is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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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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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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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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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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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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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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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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