The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGETranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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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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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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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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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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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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