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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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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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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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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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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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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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