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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain.
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And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.
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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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There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul 2. That old woman 3. That old witch.
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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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Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me.
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For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.
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Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.
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How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!
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All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
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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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