Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAnd in today already walks tomorrow.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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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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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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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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