He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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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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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.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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