He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWhen a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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