Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThose who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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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.
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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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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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