Silence does not always mark wisdom.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPoetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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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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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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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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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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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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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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