For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThis world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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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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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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