We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENo mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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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.
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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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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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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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