There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEGuilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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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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