We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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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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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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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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