A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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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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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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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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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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