For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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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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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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