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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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!
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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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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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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