No man does anything from a single motive.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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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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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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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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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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