The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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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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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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