The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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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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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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We 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.
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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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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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