The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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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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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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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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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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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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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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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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