Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes, Army Quotes, Essence Quotes

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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Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.

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The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.

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Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.

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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

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Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.

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Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.

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The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

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Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.

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Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.

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Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.

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Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.

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