There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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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.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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