The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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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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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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