Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEBe not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEImagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGELove is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThere is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEYou see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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 COLERIDGEThe 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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAll sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIt 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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAn undevout poet is an impossibility.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIn philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAs 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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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