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.
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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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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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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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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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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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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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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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