And in today already walks tomorrow.
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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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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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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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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 author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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