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To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
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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A bitter and perplexed What shall I do? Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best-balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation.
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Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
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There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.
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Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth Of all sweet sounds the life and element!
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The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are, — 1. Security to possessors 2. Facility to acquirers and 3. Hope to all.
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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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Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds man only can utter consonants.
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The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.
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That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.
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