We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGETo be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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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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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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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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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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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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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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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