To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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

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...

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.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness

Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe

Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe

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

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

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence...

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence...

Poetry: the best words in the best order

Poetry: the best words in the best order

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in...

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in...

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

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...

The religion of the Jews is, indeed, a light; but it is as the light...

The religion of the Jews is, indeed, a light; but it is as the light...

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....

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

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

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

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

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

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than...

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than...

A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.

A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.

Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella-no matter...

Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella-no matter...