My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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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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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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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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.
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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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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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