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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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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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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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As 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.
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