Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEClergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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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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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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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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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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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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