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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance.
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Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.
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When thieves come, I bark when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.
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A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.
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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
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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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It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.
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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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What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?) would have produced, in a course of generations, a cat, or a cat a lion? This is Darwinizing with a vengeance.
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Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.
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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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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Method means primarily a way or path of transit. From this we are to understand that the first idea of method is a progressive transition from one step to another in any course. If in the right course, it will be the true method if in the wrong, we cannot hope to progress.
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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
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Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not.
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