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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."
Explore more quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."

"A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind."

"Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic."

"Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism."

"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain."

"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order."
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