Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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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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 man does anything from a single motive.
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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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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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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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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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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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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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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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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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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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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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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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