Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGETranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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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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Not 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 .
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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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As 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.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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