Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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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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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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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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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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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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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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