To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEOh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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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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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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