Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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 Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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