People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
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 .
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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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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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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