Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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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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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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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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