Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

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There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.

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Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there.

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Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also

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The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.

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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

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Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

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I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to be of any service, must be self-evolved in the first instance. I am something of the Quaker's mind in this, and am inclined to wait for the spirit.

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General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

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To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.

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No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.

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My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

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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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Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.

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Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

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

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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

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In what way, or by what manner of working, God changes a soul from evil to good, how He impregnates the barren rock--the priceless gems and gold--is to the human mind an impenetrable mystery, in all cases alike.

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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

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Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.

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