I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIf a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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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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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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