The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGELanguage is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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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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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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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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