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.
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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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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 author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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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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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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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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