What comes from the heart goes to the heart
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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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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