I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEImagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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