Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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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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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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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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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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