This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The 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.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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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 doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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