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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Age: 61 †
Born: 1772
Born: October 21
Died: 1834
Died: July 25
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That agony returns And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.
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Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies the echoes of that voice, all colours a suffusion from that light.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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Often do the spirits stride on before the event and in today already walks tomorrow.
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Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.
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Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
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A Gothic church is a petrified religion.
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Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.
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Remorse weeps tears of blood.
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Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place if we do not understand him, it is our own fault.
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The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.
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