How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIt [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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe prayeth best who loveth best.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA 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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWhat comes from the heart goes to the heart
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGECommon sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe 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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIn the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGELanguage is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGESympathy 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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWith no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE