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.
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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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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