In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThat gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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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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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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