Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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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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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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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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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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