The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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About Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth. He also shared volumes and collaborated with Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Charles Lloyd.
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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.
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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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.
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
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.
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.