Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAs 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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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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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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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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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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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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We 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.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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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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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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