The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAnd in today already walks tomorrow.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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