A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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