Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIn politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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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 bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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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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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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