Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPersecution is a very easy form of virtue.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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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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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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