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"No one does anything from a single motive."
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"Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own."
"Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from 'what is'."
"The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same."
Explore more quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."
"All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame."
"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."
"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."
"He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize his own aspirations, either in religion or politics, or society, he gave up his heart to the living spirit and light within him, and avenged himself on the world by enriching it with this record of his own transcendental ideal."
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