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 COLERIDGEWe feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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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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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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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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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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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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