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 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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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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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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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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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