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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Age: 61 †
Born: 1772
Born: October 21
Died: 1834
Died: July 25
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The nightmare Life-in-Death was she.
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Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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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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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.
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Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.
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To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.
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I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.
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Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.
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The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.
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