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.
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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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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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.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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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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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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