"Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in……" — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise."
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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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I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.
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Colorado's collective shale deposits contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 trillion barrels of oil. That's almost as much as…
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The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the…
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Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a…
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Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do…
— Muhammad Ali
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Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to…
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The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly…
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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
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It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should…
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Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths. ... I think the people of our religion…
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Christian worship must contain both the cross and the crown. Sing of majesty, and sing of mercy.
— Matt Redman
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