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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEBlest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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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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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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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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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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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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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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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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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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