Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.

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You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

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He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

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

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The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

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We have to administer the law whether we like it or no.

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

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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

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Never pursue literature as a trade.

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The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.

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As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.

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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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He prayeth best who loveth best.

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I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.

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The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.

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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

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I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.

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