Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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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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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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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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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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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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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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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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