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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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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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 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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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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