Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

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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 not here to make the law.

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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 man hath penance done, And penance more will do.

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Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault.

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I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.

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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

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As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

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All nature seems at work.

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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 most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.

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Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.

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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.

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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 shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.

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The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within.

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Remorse weeps tears of blood.

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Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.

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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

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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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