No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEDemocracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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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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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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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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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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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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