We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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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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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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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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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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