Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEYou see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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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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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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