Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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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.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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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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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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