To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEBlest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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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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A 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.
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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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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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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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