Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may be said to favor fools by those who, however prudent in their opinion, are deficient in valor and enterprise.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom... by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are poss... by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What comes from the heart goes to the heart

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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

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Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also

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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Silence does not always mark wisdom. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing. With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A great mind must be androgynous. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A great mind must be androgynous.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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He prayeth best who loveth best. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He prayeth best who loveth best.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of r... by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perc... by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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No man does anything from a single motive. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No man does anything from a single motive.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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