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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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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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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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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