Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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 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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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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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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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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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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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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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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