There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIf a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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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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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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