Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIn the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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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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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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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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