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Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "You do not believe, you only believe that you believe."

You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being."

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.




Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare."

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here."

Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.




Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion."

Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest."

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind."

Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.




Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too."

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on."

The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within."

The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil."

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "Memory, bosom-spring of joy."

Memory, bosom-spring of joy.




Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man."

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng"

Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "Ancestral voices prophesying war."

Ancestral voices prophesying war.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day."

On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor."

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "Rage is essentially vulgar."

Rage is essentially vulgar.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends."

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better."

The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief."

If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection."

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!"

May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings."

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity."

A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon."

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry ."

Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power."

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise."

Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame."

Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within."

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



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "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."

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.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration."

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet."

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "All powerful souls have kindred with each other"

All powerful souls have kindred with each other



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all."

He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic."

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula."

The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil."

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense."

That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals."

I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head."

A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "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."

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.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!"

Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation"

Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "The nightmare Life-in-Death was she."

The nightmare Life-in-Death was she.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "A stately pleasure-dome decree."

A stately pleasure-dome decree.



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, you piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!"

God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, you piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!



Samuel  Taylor Quotes: "Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors."

Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.