Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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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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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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