Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGESilence does not always mark wisdom.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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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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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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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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A great mind must be androgynous.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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