Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Democracy 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.
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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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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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The 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.
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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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