How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEOf 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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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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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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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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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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