The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAlas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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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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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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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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