Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.

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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

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Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.

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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

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The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost.

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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.

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Poetry: the best words in the best order.

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

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And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.

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Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

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Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium. Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are, the more necessary it is to be plain.

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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.

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The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.

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A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.

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Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

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

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