The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGETo be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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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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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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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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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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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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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