The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIf you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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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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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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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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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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