"Experience informs us that the first defence of……" — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate."
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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325 Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge has 325 quotes on this site.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.
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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…
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The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light,…
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Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely…
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Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.
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And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.
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Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge...
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All nature seems at work.
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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
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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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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
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More Defence Quotes
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one of 240 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves.
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When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in…
— Gerry Adams
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The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it…
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A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few…
— Daniel Boone
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I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work…
— Russell Brand
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We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more…
— David Cameron
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Sadness is also a kind of defence.
— Ivo Andric
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I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves…
— Maya Angelou
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All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of…
— Germaine Greer
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When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not…
— Unknown Author
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A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause…
— John Foxe
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I felt very bad and could not sleep until 1am. Maybe he could coach me defence.
— Tamim Iqbal
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