Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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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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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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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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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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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