How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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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 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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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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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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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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