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A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Age: 61 †
Born: 1772
Born: October 21
Died: 1834
Died: July 25
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The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.
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Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best-balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.
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Method means primarily a way or path of transit. From this we are to understand that the first idea of method is a progressive transition from one step to another in any course. If in the right course, it will be the true method if in the wrong, we cannot hope to progress.
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To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.
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That agony returns And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.
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Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
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Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.
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Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a great deal which is equally true which is the general characteristic of all systems not embracing the whole truth.
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Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.
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