Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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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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