The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGETranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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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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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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