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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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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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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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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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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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