"Look through the whole history of countries professing……" — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means."
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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325 Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.
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The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the…
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The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light,…
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Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely…
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Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.
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And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.
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Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge...
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All nature seems at work.
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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
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May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable…
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Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which…
— Alexander the Great
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'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns…
— George Herbert
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I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Comrades, just as the earth, after a long drought, pants for rain, so the workers of the world pant for…
— Grigory Zinoviev
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And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms,…
— Antonin Artaud
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An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman…
— William Butler Yeats
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You have delivered up our holy German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I solemnly prophesy…
— Erich Ludendorff
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Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance…
— Simone Weil
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The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most…
— Arthur Koestler
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As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the…
— William Wordsworth
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We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard.
— Douglas Mawson
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