Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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Either 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.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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