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.
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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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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