We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWhat comes from the heart goes to the heart
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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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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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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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 author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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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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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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