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And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Age: 61 †
Born: 1772
Born: October 21
Died: 1834
Died: July 25
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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.
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All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
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Friends should be weighed, not told who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.
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If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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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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Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.
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And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.
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Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
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I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.
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Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.
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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches' pockets.
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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, 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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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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Her skin was white as leprosy.
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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.
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