Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEExperience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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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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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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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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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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