All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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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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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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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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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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