A sight to dream of, not to tell!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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 true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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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 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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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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