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It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing. With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the love of its neighbor bids it stop in other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries, Halt!
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Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.
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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
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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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A stately pleasure-dome decree.
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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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The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.
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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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Often do the spirits stride on before the event and in today already walks tomorrow.
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The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.
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Her skin was white as leprosy.
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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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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love and light, And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
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Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
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Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.
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