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 COLERIDGEOur own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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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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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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