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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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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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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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.
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The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.
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Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.
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A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
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The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within.
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Health is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.
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Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a great deal which is equally true which is the general characteristic of all systems not embracing the whole truth.
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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
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