Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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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.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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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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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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