How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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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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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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