A sight to dream of, not to tell!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAlas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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No man does anything from a single motive.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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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 wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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