How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEDemocracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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A 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.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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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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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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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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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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He 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.
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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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