Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWhen a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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.
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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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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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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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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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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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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.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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