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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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And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.
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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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A Gothic church is a petrified religion.
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The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.
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And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
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And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.
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All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing, And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring.
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I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.
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Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.
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About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious: it ought to be our never-ceasing effort to make people think, not feel.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion.
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During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs.
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The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.
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To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
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Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.
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