Poetry: the best words in the best order.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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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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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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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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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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