No man does anything from a single motive.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPoetry 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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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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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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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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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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