Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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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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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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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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.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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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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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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