As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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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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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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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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