Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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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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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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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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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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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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