There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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 man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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