A 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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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