Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPoetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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A 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.
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The 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.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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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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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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