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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPeople of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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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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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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