The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA sight to dream of, not to tell!
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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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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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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