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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA great mind must be androgynous.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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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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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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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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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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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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