Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAll sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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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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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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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.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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