The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIn philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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