The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThose who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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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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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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