Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEBrute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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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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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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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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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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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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