Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?

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History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.

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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.

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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

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I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered.

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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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The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.

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Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.

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

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Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.

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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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It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

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The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not.

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We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.

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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

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There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

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

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May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!

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