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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGESome men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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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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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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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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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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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