The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGESome men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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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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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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