Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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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 a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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It [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.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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