Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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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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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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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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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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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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