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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAn undevout poet is an impossibility.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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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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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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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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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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