The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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The 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.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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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 first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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