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 COLERIDGEAlas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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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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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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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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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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