There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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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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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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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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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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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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