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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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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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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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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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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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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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