We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAdvice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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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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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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