black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Related Topics

Acknowledge Consistent Disguise Selfishness Sympathy

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Silence does not always mark wisdom.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Always Mark Silence Wisdom
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Family Father Heavenly Light Love Mother Same Softer
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Blind Deaf Happy Imagine Man Marriage Most Myself Picture Union Woman
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Animal Brute Disgust Healthy Man Mind Over Prevails Processes Proportion Sense
Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Advice Deeper Dwells Fall Longer Mind Sink Snow Softer Upon
Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Generally Give Mist Perfect Poetry Understood
Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Bad Each Good Less Men Seem
We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

All Almost Animal Concession Degree Differ Elephant Materailsitc School
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Body Dewarfish Epigram Soul Whole Wit
No man does anything from a single motive.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Anything Man Motive No Single
Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Action Become Creature Lose Man Meditation Natural Poor Thereby
The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Already Author Biographer Country Man People Person Runed
The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

According Activity Describe Facilities Perfection Poet Relative Soul Subordination
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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Enough Foresight Gladness Gratitude Joy Lesson Long Tale Wisdom
We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Also Beast Consciousness Difference Kind Possession Same Soul
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Amusement Annoy Company Look Men Object People Person Race

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'imagick.so' (tried: /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so (/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so.so (/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0