Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA sight to dream of, not to tell!
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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