This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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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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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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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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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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A great mind must be androgynous.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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