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.
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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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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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A great mind must be androgynous.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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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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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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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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