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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENo man does anything from a single motive.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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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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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 never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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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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