Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWork without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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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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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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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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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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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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