A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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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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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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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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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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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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