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 COLERIDGEOh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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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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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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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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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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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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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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