I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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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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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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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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