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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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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Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm.
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Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Remorse weeps tears of blood.
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We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its color and brightness on the next.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.
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To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.
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Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)
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No voice but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.
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Rage is essentially vulgar.
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Friends should be weighed, not told who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.
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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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All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing, And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring.
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There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.
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The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.
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Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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