It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Nothing 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.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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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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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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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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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.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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