Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPersecution is a very easy form of virtue.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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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.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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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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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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