The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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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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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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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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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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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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