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.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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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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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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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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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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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