Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn.

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Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.

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During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs.

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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

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There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.

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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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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

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If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

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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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Above all things I entreat you to preserve your faith in Christ. It is my wealth in poverty, my joy in sorrow, my peace amid tumult. For all the evil I have committed, my gracious pardon; and for every effort, my exceeding great reward. I have found it to be so. I can smile with pity at the infidel whose vanity makes him dream that I should barter such a blessing for the few subtleties from the school of the cold-blooded sophists.

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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.

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What is one man's gain is another's loss.

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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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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, "the friend of God," Abraham was that man. We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.

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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

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The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.

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Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

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Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

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The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

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