Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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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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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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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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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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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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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