Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes, Men Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:--for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty, man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.

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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.

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The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.

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All the windy ways of men Are but dust that rises up, And is lightly laid again.

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Everlasting peace will come to the world when the last man has slain the last but one.

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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

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The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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To a good man nothing that happens is evil.

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But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly, the man who sees the consistency in things is a wit - and a Calvinist. The man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist - and a Catholic.

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She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of life — one scratched on the wall.

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When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.

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He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.

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The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

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He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

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I love not man the less, but Nature more.

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It's not put into his head to be buried. It's put into his head to be made useful. You hold your life on the condition that to the last you shall struggle hard for it. Every man holds a discovery on the same terms.

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Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the institutions and procedures which will serve as the means for the pacific settlement of disputes among men.

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An angry man is full of poison.

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Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.

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Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.

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