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.
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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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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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 age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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