You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGELanguage is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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 comes from the heart goes to the heart
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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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A great mind must be androgynous.
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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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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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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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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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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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