The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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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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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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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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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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