And in today already walks tomorrow.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEMan thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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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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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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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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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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