How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThat willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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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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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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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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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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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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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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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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