Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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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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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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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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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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