Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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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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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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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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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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