Summer has set in with its usual severity.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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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.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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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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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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