The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEDay after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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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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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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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 direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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