When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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