The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIn the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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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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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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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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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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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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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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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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