Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

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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 upon any evidence except that which the law allows.

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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.

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Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise. Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where "I admire" is but a synonyme for "I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ," is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!

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Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young!

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In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark atmosphere.

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Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

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A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.

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The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many.... The light of philosophy, when it is confined to a small minority, points out the possessors as the victims rather than the illuminators of the multitude.

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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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A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear.

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Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.

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A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

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It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.

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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

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When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

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Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.

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