The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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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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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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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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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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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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He 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.
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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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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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