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.
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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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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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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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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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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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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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