The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThere are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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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 would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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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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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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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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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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