There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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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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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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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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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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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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