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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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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When thieves come, I bark when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.
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And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
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Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.
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To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.
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Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get his own belief.
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A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative a principle carries knowledge within itself, and is prospective.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.
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Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.
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What is one man's gain is another's loss.
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To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!
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If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!
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Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
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Facts are not truths they are not conclusions they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.
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