A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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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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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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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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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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