Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGECommon sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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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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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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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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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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