Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.

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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

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There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

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The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.

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Her skin was white as leprosy.

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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

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The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.

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The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.

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A great mind must be androgynous.

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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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Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.

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If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

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Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

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A sight to dream of, not to tell!

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Come, come thou bleak December wind, And blow the dry leaves from the tree! Flash, like a Love-thought, thro'me, Death And take a Life that wearies me.

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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.

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Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny, and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.

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