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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA great mind must be androgynous.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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Democracy 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.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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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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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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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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