The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAn undevout poet is an impossibility.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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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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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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