To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA great mind must be androgynous.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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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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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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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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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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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