Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

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

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A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; - nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.

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

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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

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A sight to dream of, not to tell!

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He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.

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

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You talk about making this article cheaper by reducing its price in the market from 8 d. to 6 d. But suppose, in so doing, you have rendered your country weaker against a foreign foe; suppose you have demoralized thousands of your fellow-countrymen, and have sown discontent between one class of society and another, your article is tolerably dear, I take it, after all.

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Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.

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One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.

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If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

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

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As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

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Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.

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Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

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O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.

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

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A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree.

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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

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