No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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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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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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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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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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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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