The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGERemorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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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.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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