To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAll powerful souls have kindred with each other
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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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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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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