How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWorks of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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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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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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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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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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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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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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