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Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.
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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Brute animals have the vowel sounds man only can utter consonants.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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Flowers are lovely love is flower-like Friendship is a sheltering tree Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old!
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
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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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Facts are not truths they are not conclusions they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.
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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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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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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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