Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEMilton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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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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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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