We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIn politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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