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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIt is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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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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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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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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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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