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Quote by Jennifer Granholm

“When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.”

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Jennifer Granholm, born on February 5, 1959, is a prominent politician from Canada. She served as the Governor of Michigan from 2003 to 2011, during which she focused on promoting green energy and renewable energy development, contributing significantly to the economic and social development of the state. more

“Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,--the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts. We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,--just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all, we are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.”

Ifs Firsts Kind May Stills Soul School Differences Consciousness Degrees Possession Beast Immortal Elephants Wisest Concessions Slugs Immortal Soul

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)

“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.”

Firsts Stars Flower Birth Gentle Height Woven Affectionate Sparkling Wreaths

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.”

States Nations Ought Civilized

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

“Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.”

Style Sentences Rhythm Melody

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.”

Birth Hebrew Sublimity

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge with an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge with an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.”

Heart Eye Tears Pity Superstitions Frozen Chill

Book:The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume

Source: The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume

“A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.”