Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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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.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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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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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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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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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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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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