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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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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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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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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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