What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWhat comes from the heart goes to the heart
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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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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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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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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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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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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Even 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!
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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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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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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