Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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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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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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