The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
- 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.
- Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
- Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom.
- I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
- 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?
- There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul, 2. That old woman, 3. That old witch.
- Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.
- There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.
- 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.
- The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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- Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
- Pay attention to your inner voice. For it needs you to analyse what you are thinking about.
- If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
- Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
- A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
- You cannot mix sports with politics.
- Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.