Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGELove is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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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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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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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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