He prayeth best who loveth best.
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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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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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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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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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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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