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 COLERIDGEPoetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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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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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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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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