As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEMan thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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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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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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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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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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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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