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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Contain Nothing Otherwise Permanently Reason
Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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$Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote - There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.$

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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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Call Common Degree Sense Uncommon Wisdom World
Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Carry Childhood Feeling Genius Manhood Power
We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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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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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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