Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a great deal which is equally true; which is the general characteristic of all systems not embracing the whole truth.
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Memory, bosom-spring of joy.
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Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.
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Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get his own belief.
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An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.
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To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.
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On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.
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I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.
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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 characteristic formula.
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We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis difference; & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome.
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There is nothing insignificant-nothing.
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Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.
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The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.
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Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.
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Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast.
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Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea.
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All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any presumed Science is ascertained to be actually & verily science. The Ptolemaic Astronomy was barely able to prognosticate a lunar eclipse; with Kepler and Newton came Science and Prophecy.
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Conscience is the pulse of reason
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The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.
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That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!
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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.
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Bells, the poor man's only music.
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To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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