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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENot the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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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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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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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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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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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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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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