There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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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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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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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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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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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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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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