Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEEither we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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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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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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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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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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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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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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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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