Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAlas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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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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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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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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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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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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?
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