Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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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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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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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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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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