This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThere are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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