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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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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 have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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