Indolence Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Download Open image “The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Indolence Inspirational Laziness Love Next Universal
The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Love is a universal thing that everyone understands. Love, like death, is the only thing that binds humanity. — Sharon Needles Copy Share Image
We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal. — Christopher Eccleston Copy Share Image
A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing to which cities have become deserted and the land has ceased to yield fruit, although there have neither been continuous wars nor epidemics...For as men had fallen into such a state of pretentiousness, avarice, and indolence… — Polybius Copy Share
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be at all within the reach of human capacity, it is certain it must lie very deep and abstruse: and to hope we shall arrive at it without pains, while the greatest geniuses have failed with… — David Hume Copy Share
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action. — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
“A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
“You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
