Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENo man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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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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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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In 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.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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