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No voice but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.
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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Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.
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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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He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.
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A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
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Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.
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Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.
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Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.
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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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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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You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant and I know nothing else that will, alone. Certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
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We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its color and brightness on the next.
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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.
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To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.
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