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 COLERIDGERemorse 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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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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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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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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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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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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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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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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