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Her skin was white as leprosy.
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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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them and in this sense Fortune may be said to favor fools by those who, however prudent in their opinion, are deficient in valor and enterprise.
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Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance.
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Rage is essentially vulgar.
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Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth Of all sweet sounds the life and element!
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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
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There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.
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A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
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Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.
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Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.
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Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.
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The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.
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There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul 2. That old woman 3. That old witch.
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He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
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I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings for my shame and my feebleness.
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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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