It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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