Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEMan 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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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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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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