Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEReal pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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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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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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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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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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