In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEBe not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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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?
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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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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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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