The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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 duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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