A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGECommon sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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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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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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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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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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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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