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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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 curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the love of its neighbor bids it stop in other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries, Halt!
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Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design, and is sculpture and painting inclusively. It shows the greatness of man, and should at the same time teach him humility.
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He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.
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Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young!
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I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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