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?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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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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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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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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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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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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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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