My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAlas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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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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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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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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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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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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