All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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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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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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