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Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.
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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S. T. Coleridge
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Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.
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Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.
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The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.
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The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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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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A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
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Often do the spirits stride on before the event and in today already walks tomorrow.
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If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
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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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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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A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
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The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.
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For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.
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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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Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young!
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