Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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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.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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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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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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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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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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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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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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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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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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