Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIf you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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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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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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