Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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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.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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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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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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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.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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