When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIf you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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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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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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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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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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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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