An undevout poet is an impossibility.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENot 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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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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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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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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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.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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