I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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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No man does anything from a single motive.
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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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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