Summer has set in with its usual severity.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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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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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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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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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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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