He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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The 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.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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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 if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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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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