Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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