A sight to dream of, not to tell!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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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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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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