The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPersecution is a very easy form of virtue.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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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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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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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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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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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