Firsts Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s imagination turns each inaugural moment into a lyrical tableau. Across fifteen concise verses he explores the wonder and mystery that accompany the first steps of any journey.

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The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the…

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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…

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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

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The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and…

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The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is…

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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was…

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In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring…

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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…

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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or…

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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…

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Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the…

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The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs…

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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,--the first and the wisest of…

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I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to…

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Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

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Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

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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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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

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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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I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths…

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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine…

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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on…

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