The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThere is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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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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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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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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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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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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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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