We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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 faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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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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