It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWhen a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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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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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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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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