When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThere 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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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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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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