Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENature 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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 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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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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