I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAn undevout poet is an impossibility.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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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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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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