| It often amuses me to hear men impute all their misfortunes to fate, luck, or destiny, whilst their successes or good fortune they ascribe to their own sagacity, cleverness or penetration. |
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- Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| And in today already walks tomorrow. |
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- Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. |
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- Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| A sight to dream of, not to tell! |
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- Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair- The bees are stirring - birds are on the wing - And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring! And I the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing. |
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- Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale -- my dreams become the substances of my life. |
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- Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations. |
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- Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery. |
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- Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. |
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- Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people. |
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- Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. |
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- Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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