To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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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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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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No man does anything from a single motive.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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