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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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 faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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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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