What comes from the heart goes to the heart
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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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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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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