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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEFriendship is a sheltering tree.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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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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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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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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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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