“Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Category: sympathy
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“Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Category: marriage
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