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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENot one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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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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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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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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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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