Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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