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 COLERIDGEThe first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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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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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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