To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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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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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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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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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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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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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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