There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPersecution is a very easy form of virtue.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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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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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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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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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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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