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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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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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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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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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