Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAs 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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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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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 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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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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