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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
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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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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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be!
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What is one man's gain is another's loss.
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Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies the echoes of that voice, all colours a suffusion from that light.
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The nightmare Life-in-Death was she.
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We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.
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Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.
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Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost.
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