A great mind must be androgynous.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENo man does anything from a single motive.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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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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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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