Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEEither 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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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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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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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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