It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEOh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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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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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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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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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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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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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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