A great mind must be androgynous.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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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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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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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.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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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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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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