How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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