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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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And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.
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Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get his own belief.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.
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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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A bitter and perplexed What shall I do? Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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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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Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!
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The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.
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O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be!
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Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.
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In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.
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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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I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.
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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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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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