This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWork without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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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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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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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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No man does anything from a single motive.
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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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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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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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