Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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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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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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