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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEImagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like 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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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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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.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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