My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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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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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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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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