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 COLERIDGEThe most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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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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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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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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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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