Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotations
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Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink.Water, water everywhere,Nor any drop to drink.
I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration.
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
What comes from the heart goes to the heart.
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom.
I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship--never.
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.
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, form our true honor.
Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius-- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
Oh sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
An orphan's curse would drag to HellA spirit from on highBut oh More horrible than thatIs the curse in a dead man's eye.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Poetry the best words in the best order.
There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.
Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole.
Beloved from pole to pole.
The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.
There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.