Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEClergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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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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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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