Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEFor poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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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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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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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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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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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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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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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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