To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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You 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.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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