Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGELove is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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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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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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