Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEYou 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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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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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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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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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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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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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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