He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEOur own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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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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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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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.
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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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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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