Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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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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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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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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