How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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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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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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