Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEFriendship is a sheltering tree.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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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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There 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.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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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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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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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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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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