Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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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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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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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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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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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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