We 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 COLERIDGEThere is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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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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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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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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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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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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