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 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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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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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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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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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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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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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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