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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIn many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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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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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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