You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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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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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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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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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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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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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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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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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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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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