How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIf you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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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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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 first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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Not 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 .
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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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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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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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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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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