Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENo man does anything from a single motive.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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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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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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