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.
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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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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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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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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A great mind must be androgynous.
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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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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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