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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIn many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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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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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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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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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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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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