A great mind must be androgynous.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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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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.
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As 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.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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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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