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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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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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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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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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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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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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