Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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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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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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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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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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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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