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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA great mind must be androgynous.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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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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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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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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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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