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 COLERIDGEWhat comes from the heart goes to the heart
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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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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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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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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