A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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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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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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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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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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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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