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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPersecution is a very easy form of virtue.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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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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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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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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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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