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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGESome men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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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 gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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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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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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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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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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