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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEBlest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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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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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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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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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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