Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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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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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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