Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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.
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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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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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