How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIf you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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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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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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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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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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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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