I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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