Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPersecution is a very easy form of virtue.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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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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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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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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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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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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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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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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