Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as...

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as...

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and...

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and...

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...

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what...

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what...

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government...

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government...

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...

All thoughts, all passions, all delights, whatever stirs this mortal frame, all are but ministers...

All thoughts, all passions, all delights, whatever stirs this mortal frame, all are but ministers...

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

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...

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or...

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or...

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...

Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

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;...

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.