Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEBrute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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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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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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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 primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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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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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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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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