Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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