In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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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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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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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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 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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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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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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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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