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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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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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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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