The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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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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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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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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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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