Silence does not always mark wisdom.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIt [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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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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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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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