Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA sight to dream of, not to tell!
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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 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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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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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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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.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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