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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Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

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...

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities...

$The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities...$

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...

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...

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...

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

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.

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

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

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.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

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

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

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

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...

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

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...

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;...

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Never waste a good pair of shoulders carrying around an empty head.

Never waste a good pair of shoulders carrying around an empty head.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain