There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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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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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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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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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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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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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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