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One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.
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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I am sure from my experience of juries that, in a criminal case especially, they will obey the law as declared by the Judge they will take the law from the Judge, whether they like it or do not like it, and apply it honestly to the facts before them.
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Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!
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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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