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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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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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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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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 primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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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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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.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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