The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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 man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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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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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.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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