Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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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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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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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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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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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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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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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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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