The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEBlest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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