Summer has set in with its usual severity.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEGenius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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The 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.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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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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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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