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 COLERIDGEThe love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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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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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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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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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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