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 COLERIDGELove is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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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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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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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 wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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