What did Samuel Taylor Coleridge mean by: Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poet · England Copy
+ I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals. Feraz Zeid, August 8, 2023December 12, 2023, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Love, Superiority, Superiors, 0 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poet · England
+ Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Not Perfect, Pleasure, 0 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poet · England
+ It is a flat’ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Flats, 0 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poet · England
+ The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power. Feraz Zeid, June 22, 2023December 12, 2023, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Imagination, Notion, Primaries, 0 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poet · England
+ The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, History, Ideas, Wise, 0 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poet · England
+ But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Birth, Imagination, Spirit, 0 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poet · England
+ A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. Feraz Zeid, October 28, 2023December 26, 2023, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mom, Motherhood, Mothers Day, 0 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poet · England
+ Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Foundation, Happiness, Virtue, 0 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poet · England
There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty. - Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin Magician · France
Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
I didn’t mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit. - Michael Leunig Cartoonist · Australia