Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEGood and bad men are each less so than they seem.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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I 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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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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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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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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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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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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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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