The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEYou see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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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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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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