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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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

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

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

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of...

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of...

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

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...

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

No one does anything from a single motive.

No one does anything from a single motive.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

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.

Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.

Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are...

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are...