The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIn many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEMan thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe 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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEFor poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENo man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIn politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENo man does anything from a single motive.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPoetry 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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEChristianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEFriendship is a sheltering tree.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEOur own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEEven to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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