How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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