Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry;...

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry;...

So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language religion government...

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language religion government...

Poetry: the best words in the best order

Poetry: the best words in the best order

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are...

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are...

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose...

I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose...

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books...

Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books...

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence...

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence...

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace;...

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace;...

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed...

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed...

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

Wisdom is not in words. Wisdom is meaning within words

Wisdom is not in words. Wisdom is meaning within words