Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

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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A rogue is a roundabout fool.

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Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth.

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

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The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost.

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So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

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

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The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.

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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

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We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

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If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.

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Conscience is the pulse of reason

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Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng

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If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil . He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse.

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Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)

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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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Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

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Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.

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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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