"Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish……" — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so is there a laugh of terror and a laugh of merriment."
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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325 Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.
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The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the…
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The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light,…
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Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.
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And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.
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Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge...
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All nature seems at work.
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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity,…
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
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