There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEGenius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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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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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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