There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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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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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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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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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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