That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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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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