No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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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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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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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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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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