A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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