Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

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A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.

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Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but every incident sets him thinking; and it is curious, and at the same time strictly natural, that Hamlet, who all the play seems reason itself, should he impelled, at last, by mere accident to effect his object. I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so.

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

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Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

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All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any presumed Science is ascertained to be actually & verily science. The Ptolemaic Astronomy was barely able to prognosticate a lunar eclipse; with Kepler and Newton came Science and Prophecy.

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Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion.

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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.

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A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

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Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.

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To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

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The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many.... The light of philosophy, when it is confined to a small minority, points out the possessors as the victims rather than the illuminators of the multitude.

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Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.

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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

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All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

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To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

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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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I am sure from my experience of juries that, in a criminal case especially, they will obey the law as declared by the Judge; they will take the law from the Judge, whether they like it or do not like it, and apply it honestly to the facts before them.

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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

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