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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about marriage, union, blind, happiness, woman, man

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about talent, lie, genius, action, imagination, reason, being

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are - 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; 3. Hope to all.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about politics, end, security, nation, hope

What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about heart

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about art, language, imagination

The shortest to do many things is to do one thing at once.

Quote by Samuel Smiles about opinion, things

It's so weird to me, but the whole Broadway community loves the way I sing!

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about vice, public, people

A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about nothing, good, good luck

A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about insects

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about insects

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about wife, good, good luck, man

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about nothing, man

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about genius, man

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about good, good luck, man

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about art, magic, man

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about wealth, ambition, man