Friendship is a sheltering tree.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWhat 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?
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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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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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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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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