No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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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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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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