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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEMy eyes make pictures when they are shut.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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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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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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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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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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