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“Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge0 likes
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“Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.”
“What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.”
“All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.”
“Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.”
“He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.”
“I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.”
“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions-the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.”
“Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.”
“To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.”
“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.”
“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
“The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.”
“A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.”
“An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the intensest delight in music, and can detect good from bad.”
“If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?”
“The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.”
“Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.”
“A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!”
“How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.”
“Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premisses, but in the nature and parts of premisses.”
“As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.”
“The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.”
“All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.”
“Silence does not always mark wisdom.”
“And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.”
“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.”
“He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.”
“A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.”
“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
“To be loved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.”
“Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.”
“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.”
“Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”
“Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.”
“Good and bad men are less than they seem.”
“Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.”
“What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.”
“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 their best order.”
“Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.”
“Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.”
“Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.”
“The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.”
“To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.”
“No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.”
“Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.”
“The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all.”
“An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die.”