Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe

Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted...

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted...

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a...

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a...

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they...

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they...

I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose...

I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose...

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace;...

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace;...

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are...

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are...

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed...

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed...

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect...

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect...

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language religion government...

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language religion government...

Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books...

Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books...

Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never...

Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never...

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power

He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun...

He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun...

Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell

Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell

A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude

A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude