As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEYou 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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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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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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Either 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.
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