Friendship is a sheltering tree. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | We Heart Quotes

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Animals Man

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Intolerance

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Architecture

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wisdom World

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Vices

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Heart Mind Man

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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