Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGESilence does not always mark wisdom.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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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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Poetry 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.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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The 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.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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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.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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