Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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