People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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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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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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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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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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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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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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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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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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