Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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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.
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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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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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