Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEBrute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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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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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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