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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGELove is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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