Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEEven 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!
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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