Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThose who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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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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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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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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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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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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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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