Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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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 love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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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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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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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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