Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThere 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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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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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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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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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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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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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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