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!
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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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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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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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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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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