An undevout poet is an impossibility.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAnd in today already walks tomorrow.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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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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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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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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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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