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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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