Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThere is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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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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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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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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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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