No one does anything from a single motive.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only...

To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only...

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...

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself...

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself...

Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon...

Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon...

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...

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

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

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

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.

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams...

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams...

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart...

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart...

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

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

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...

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of...

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of...

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

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

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

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

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

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

We've had September 11th, the Gore-Bush recount, a war in Iraq, a war in Afghanistan,...

We've had September 11th, the Gore-Bush recount, a war in Iraq, a war in Afghanistan,...

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice)...

Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice)...