All powerful souls have kindred with each other
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIt [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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost 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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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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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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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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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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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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