Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

A great mind must be androgynous.

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Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me.

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We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.

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For mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.

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A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.

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The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. 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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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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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

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I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.

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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

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Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

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Never yet did there exist a full faith in the Divine Word (by whom light as well as immortality was brought into the world) which did not expand the intellect, while it purified the heart--which did not multiply the aims and objects of the understanding, while it fixed and simplified those of the desires and passions.

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I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.

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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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...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries of life and organization, and even of the intellect and moral being, were conjured within the magic circle of mathematical formulae.

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That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!

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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

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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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The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.

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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .

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