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 COLERIDGENot the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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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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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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