How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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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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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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