It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIn politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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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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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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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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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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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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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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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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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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