That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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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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