Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIt 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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