He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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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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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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed 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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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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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 true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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