A great mind must be androgynous.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEMy eyes make pictures when they are shut.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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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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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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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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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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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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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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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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Nature 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.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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