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Sense Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty…
- A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their…
- An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.
- Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a…
- To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day…
- Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is…
- The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of…
- Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
- No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
- He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.
- I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and…
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- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
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- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
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- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden