How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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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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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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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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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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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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