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 COLERIDGEAll sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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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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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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