All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAll powerful souls have kindred with each other
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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