Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGESome men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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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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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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