Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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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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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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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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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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