The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAnd in today already walks tomorrow.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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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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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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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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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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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