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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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What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?) would have produced, in a course of generations, a cat, or a cat a lion? This is Darwinizing with a vengeance.
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To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.
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There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.
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Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.
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On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.
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If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?
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The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.
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A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.
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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings for my shame and my feebleness.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.
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The nightmare Life-in-Death was she.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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