How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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