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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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Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get his own belief.
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Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.
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That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.
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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.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All nature seems at work.
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Bells, the poor man's only music.
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
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We have to administer the law whether we like it or no.
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Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.
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So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
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Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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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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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.
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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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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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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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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
