Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWhen a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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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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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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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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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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