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 COLERIDGEAs 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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