Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.

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A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

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Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks.

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!

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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

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Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze - On me alone it blew.

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Conscience is the pulse of reason

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He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up that strange thing, an infant's dream), I hurried with him to our orchard plot, and he beheld the moon, and hushed at once. Suspends his sobs and laughs most silently. While his fair eyes, that swam with undropped tears, did glitter in the yellow moonbeam.

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Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

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We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis difference; & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome.

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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.

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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:--for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty, man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.

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A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

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For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten.

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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

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The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface.

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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

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Rage is essentially vulgar.

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