To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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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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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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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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