Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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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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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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