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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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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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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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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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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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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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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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