The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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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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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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