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Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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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Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.
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A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
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...in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.
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So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
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We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its color and brightness on the next.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Often do the spirits stride on before the event and in today already walks tomorrow.
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