I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEFriendship is a sheltering tree.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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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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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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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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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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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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