Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAs 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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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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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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