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Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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LAFCADIO HEARN The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.
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TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
EDMUND WALLER The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's st...
THOMAS MERTON The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's st...
THOMAS MERTON She participated in and conducted Bible study classes for several years. She will be remembered by m...
CHARLOTTE BASS The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, ...
PHILIP SCHAFF I see application every time I study the Bible. And this particular study provides a good summation ...
PHIL BROWN The Bible was written by barbarians in a barbarous, coarse and vulgar age
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL In terms of coming to Bible study and chapel, this team has more guys involved than any team I've ev...
JOHN OLERUD Every writer should inevitably acknowledge the fact their book sales will never match those of the b...
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL I cannot read God's mind, however I can read God's Word.
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WILLIAM GLASSER The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their f...
ARTHUR SMITH The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine ...
THOMAS PAINE I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I s...
ISAAC NEWTON The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from...
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TIM POWERS I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An ...
JOHN SAYLES The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
ALBERT CAMUS Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned...
FRANCINE PROSE The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
HUGH BLAIR I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON The secret of masonry is to keep a secret.
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ISAAC D'ISRAELI In my opinion, long and intense study of the human figure is the necessary foundation for a sculptor...
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JONATHAN SACKS From our point of view, however, any interpretation of Genesis which accommodates the standard syste...
HENRY MORRIS All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler.
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No matter how har...
RATISH EDWARDS There will be things I won't tell you ever ,
Then there will be things that you won't ever lis...
RATISH EDWARDS I wish I could see you some day,
Just for a moment, just see you,

I wish I could h...
RATISH EDWARDS There is no greater glory than to die for love.
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GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ I'm a roller coaster that only foes up.
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PRINCE The word of God is good to hear.
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JEAN-PIERRE DE CAUSSADE Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
EMILE M. CIORAN The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants ar...
MARTIN LUTHER Logically, taking Scripture seriously means being passionately concerned about interpreting it corre...
HUGH ROSS Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and v...
LORD CHESTERFIELD It is a fearful mistake for us to neglect the study of the Bible to investigate theories that are mi...
ELLEN G. WHITE Many of the Americans went to Paris to study in the 1880s and absorbed the new style (impressionism)...
LYNNE AMBROSINI When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by ...
JIMMY CARTER Style is the perfection of a point of view
RICHARD EBERHART My point of view as a writer has to be a lot more ego-less than just like being some performer on st...
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RAYMOND CHANDLER There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establ...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests an...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
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STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
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JAMES W. BLACK I don't do any vulgar movements.
ELVIS PRESLEY We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.
JEAN HENRI FABRE I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
ROBERT FROST Dedication and enthusiams are the greatest rewards for learning
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FRANK AUERBACH There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's be...
HAL PRICE What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me i...
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CHRISTINA ENGELA No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
ANDREA HAIRSTON It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
J.D. SALINGER There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Parents must teach their children the fear of God.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It’s not what you get, but what you give that is God’s true measure of a life.
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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE And the spring comes slowly up this way.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Summer has set in with its usual severity.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE All thoughts, all passions, all delights, whatever stirs this mortal frame, all are but ministers of...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is s...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poetry: the best words in the best order.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The bride hath paced into the hall, / Red as a rose is she.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: / At one stride comes the dark.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the br...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE He saw a cottage with a double coach house, A cottage of gentility; And the Devil did grin, for his ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with mus...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale -- my dreams become the substances of my life.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE It was a miracle of rare device, a sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A savage place! as holy and enchanted / As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted / By woman wailing...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman wor...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, / Who thicks man's blood with cold.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Knight's bones are dust, / And his good sword rust; - / His soul is with the saints, I trust.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weap...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the m...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The one red leaf, the last of its clan, / That dances as often as dance it can, / Hanging so light, ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the fi...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE No man does anything from a single motive
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, / And the owlet whoops to the wolf below.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discov...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE We were a ghastly crew.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE It is an ancient mariner, / And he stoppeth one of three.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discov...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul
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