The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWithin today, tomorrow is already walking.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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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 first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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