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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPoetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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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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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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