No one does anything from a single motive.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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

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...

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a...

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a...

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the...

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the...

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than...

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than...

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;...

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

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...

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion....

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion....

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;...

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...

There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse...

There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse...

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old...

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old...

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.

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

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...

We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment,...

We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment,...

Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a...

Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a...