A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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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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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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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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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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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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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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