A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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We 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.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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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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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.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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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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