Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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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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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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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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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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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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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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