There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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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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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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