"He saw a lawyer killing a viper on……" — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel."
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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 Abel Quotes
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In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of…
— Eric Temple Bell
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The gods were bored and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created.…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Abel has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years.
— Charles Hermite
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I challenge anyone to tell me that there isn’t evil in this world. From the days of Cain and Abel…
— Taya Kyle
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There is no evidence to support the belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ever questioned Americas power. He questioned only…
— Lord Acton
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Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister…
— Louise Mensch
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On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the…
— Jim Butcher
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I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have…
— Park Chan-wook
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Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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The mark of Cain is stamped upon our foreheads. Across the centuries, our brother Abel was lain in blood which…
— Pope John XXIII
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No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young…
— G. H. Hardy
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We do not wonder that there is conflict in the world. There is now, and has been from the time…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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