And in today already walks tomorrow.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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A 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.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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We 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.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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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