Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEGood and bad men are each less so than they seem.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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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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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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We 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.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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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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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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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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