Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGETranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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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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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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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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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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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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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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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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