We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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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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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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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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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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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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