Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEGood and bad men are each less so than they seem.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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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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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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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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The 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.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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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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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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