Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENo mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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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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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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