Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEMilton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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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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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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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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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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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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