Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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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.
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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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A great mind must be androgynous.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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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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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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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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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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