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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENo man does anything from a single motive.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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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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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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