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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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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After Age Day Drink Excess Feel Like Match Over Seem Sime Sore Stimulation Sustain
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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Aged Children Inhuman Often Through World
Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Ignorance Ignorant Presume Understanding Until Understand Yourself
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Body Dewarfish Epigram Soul Whole Wit
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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Affirm Almost Book Excellent Good Hold Like Milton Quality Remark Say Truth Well
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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Amusement Annoy Company Look Men Object People Person Race
We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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Also Beast Consciousness Difference Kind Possession Same Soul
No man does anything from a single motive.
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Anything Man Motive No Single
Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Finest Glass Keep Prodi=Uce Some Musical Tone Wet
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Deficient Humor Mind Organize Sense Throughout
I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Better Equal Love Myself Superior
Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Generally Give Mist Perfect Poetry Understood
The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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Birth Breeding Contain Event Far Greater History Interesting Men Moment Month Nine Ore Probably Three
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Call Common Degree Sense Uncommon Wisdom World
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Apart Greater Idea Mankind Only Pass Possess Possessed Wise
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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Drudgery Geniys Men Put Racehorse School Sentence Treadmill True

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