As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIt [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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