How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEBe not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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 love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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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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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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