Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAdvice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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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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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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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.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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