Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Character Quotes

The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles and character of farce, as distinguished from comedy and from entertainments. A proper farce is mainly distinguished from comedy by the licence allowed, and even required, in the fable, in order to produce strange and laughable situations. The story need not be probable, it is enough that it is possible.

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He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

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The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

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There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently

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Science is nothing but perception.

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All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

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Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

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Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

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Punishment is justice for the unjust.

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The man that hath no music in himself

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It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

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Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.

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Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.

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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

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Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail.

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Newspapers are the second hand of history.

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My love is unconditional. Your action is irrelevant.

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