With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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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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