In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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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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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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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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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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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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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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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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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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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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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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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