The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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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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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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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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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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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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