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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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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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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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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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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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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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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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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