Law Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

14 Law quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Coleridge’s brief collection offers a poetic lens on the law, blending lyrical imagination with moral reflection. Fourteen lines give a taste of how his Romantic sensibility engages with the rules that bind society.

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We have to administer the law whether we like it or no.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

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We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded…

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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting…

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As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are…

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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their…

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We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to…

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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)…

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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…

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For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with…

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Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then…

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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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