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 COLERIDGEOf 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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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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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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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 poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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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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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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