Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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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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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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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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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