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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGERemorse 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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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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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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