Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEEven to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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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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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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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.
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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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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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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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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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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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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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