No man does anything from a single motive.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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