We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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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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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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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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