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 COLERIDGEUntil you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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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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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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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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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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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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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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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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